THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

We Won’t Know When Lockdown Will End

The coronavirus lockdown will continue for numerous more weeks at the very least, and the government are seeking to give a more precise message that this isn’t going to end anytime soon.

The coronavirus will likely shadow over us until we have an effective vaccine, so we need to prepare ourselves for life to be isolated for a long time, and time has been shaped into two milestones, before and after coronavirus.

In our current existence, our loved ones suffocate to death in near-total solitude.

Outside of our hospitals, life has ground to a standstill, and we’re confined to our homes.

We’re losing our jobs, businesses are going to the wall and the global economy is wavering on the verge of collapse.

In Spain and Italy, intensive care units are failing under the number of dead and dying, and such is the scale of suffering, doctors are forced to decide between who should live and who should die, with the military assigned to manage the sheer amount of corpses, and soon, countless more countries will have their accounts of these stories.

It took only twelve weeks for the virus to bring the world to a standstill, to put our lives and societies on lockdown.

More than 40,000 people have now lost their lives, but this is just the grim initial act of the coronavirus crisis.

In the absence of a vaccine or any established treatments, it’s expected that COVID 19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is here to linger for at least the next year.

While the worst part of the outbreak is immediately ahead of us, it will be a long time before life returns to normal.

For the British government, this realisation came like a punch to the gut. From its botched communications in early March, it seems like officials were anticipating that COVID 19 would be a short, sharp, shock, tearing through the population until enough herd immunity was built up against the virus and that its velocity would be naturally suppressed.

If any traces of this approach remained, they were stamped out by March 16 when a report from the Imperial College London set out the cost of inaction over coronavirus.

Without a switch to much more comprehensive social distancing measures, the capacity of intensive care units would be surpassed eightfold and 250,000 people would die, and that was in a best-case scenario.

The same day, the Imperial report was published, and the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, urged everyone in the country to stay at home and avoid pubs, restaurants and theatres.

A week later this became a total lockdown with police being given the ability to fine people who were outside for anything other than a small list of state-sanctioned activities, which was exercise, shopping for food, travelling for essential work or assisting the vulnerable.

Overnight, the social framework in the United Kingdom had declined immeasurably.

How long will it all last? These were the words, in their many forms, which were fired at politicians and civil servants at the government’s daily press briefings, and the answers may spark more or less confidence depending on whom you listen to.

Boris Johnson’s initial register was positive arrogance, telling the people on March 19 that in twelves weeks that we could turn the tide on coronavirus and finally send it packing altogether.

Ten days later, the deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries struck a more serious tone, warning that social distancing measures might be in position for six months, and possibly even longer.

Each of these scenarios, twelve weeks or six months, will likely only encompass the beginning of the struggle against COVID 19.

And while there’s a faint belief that transmission could wither away altogether through the summer, it’s more probable that the threat of this disease and its disastrous impact on health and the treacherous undermining of our society is here to stay until we have a vaccine, and things are unlikely to be normal again for a long time.

The dilemma is that we don’t have a vaccine and the government can’t lock down the population indefinitely, and by the time the coronavirus ends we will be facing economic collapse and we will be just as prepared for that as we were the coronavirus outbreak.

Royal Mail Changes Its Delivery And Collections

Royal Mail has changed its delivery office depot opening and closing times amid the coronavirus crisis, as well as changing the way it makes deliveries.

The depot changes came into force on Monday and have been put in place to ensure a safe and reliable service for its patrons.

To protect workers and the public, Royal Mail has changed the opening times of Customer Services Points in local delivery offices.

The largest locations will now be open between 07.00-11.00am. All other Customer Service Points will be open between 07.00-09.00am.

All will be closed on Wednesday and Sunday.

To support the Government’s advice to stay at home and avoid non-essential journeys, bosses are asking customers to only visit Customer Service Points where necessary, and as a reminder, workers can also redeliver items for free.

To give patrons longer to collect or have their item redelivered, Royal Mail has provisionally prolonged the time it will keep parcels and post to 30 calendar days before the item is returned to the sender.

This applies to the following:

Items we’ve left a ‘Something for You’ card

Items that have a ‘Surcharge to Pay’

Items that have a ‘Customs Charge to Pay’

Local Collect items where the parcel is addressed to the Customer Service Point.

Due to increased absence levels, staff reviewed timed guarantees for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9 am and 1 pm services and will make the subsequent changes:

For items posted from Tuesday 31 March 2020 onwards, guaranteed delivery for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9.00 am the next working day will change by noon the next working day.

Guaranteed delivery for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1.00 pm will change to by 9.00 pm the next working day*.
*existing postcode exceptions apply.

To protect both workers and patrons as much as possible, Royal Mail says it’s minimising contact during delivery.

Staff will not be handing over the hand-held devices to customers to obtain signatures but instead, log the name of the person receiving them. Additionally, for all customers where they need to deliver any item that won’t go through the letterbox, postmen and women will put the item at the door.

Having tapped on the door, they will then move away to a safe distance while you retrieve your item. This will guarantee your item is delivered securely rather than being left outside.

The Government has introduced measures to protect our most vulnerable groups, including those in residential care. These include restricting all but essential access to care homes for external contractors.

Royal Mail said it recognises post is important to the ageing, especially those away from their friends and families in care homes.

Hence, to support the effort to keep the post moving but stop the spread of coronavirus, workers have made arrangements to deliver to a central point, eg. reception, rather than specific locations within care homes from March 19.

These changes will serve to ensure the health, safety and well-being of staff and the vulnerable.

Staff will deliver unaddressed door to door advertising postings to consumers who are getting addressed letters or packages at the same time, wherever realistically feasible.

Door to door postings provides a really important service to small businesses and companies of all kinds as they endeavour to provide their goods and services.

Numerous small businesses require that support now more than ever. They want to send it, many consumers want to receive it.

Door to door postings also includes important communication from local government.

I would like to say that the Postal Service is doing a fabulous job because this is an indispensable service that’s needed more than ever in these times of self-isolation.

But in times like this, why is junk mail still being delivered, and why would people possibly want it at a time like this?

Gordon Brown And Tony Blair Call For Global Government To Tackle CoronaVirus

The Coronavirus pandemic can offer lessons about global coordination and that we should seek more join-up Global thinking on the subject according to a recent speech by Globalist politician Tony Blair.

Speaking at a live-streamed event that was hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Tony Blair described the outbreak as a tough crisis that will damage countries health care systems economies.

Now in a shocking move, his co-creator of New Labour Gordon Brown has called for even more drastic action turning the Blairite project into reality.

Gordon Brown has asked world leaders to form a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical economic crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.

He said there was a need for a task force comprising world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response.

A virtual meeting of the G20 group of developed and developing countries, chaired by Saudi Arabia, will be held, but Gordon Brown stated it would have been better to have also included the UN security council.

This is not something that can be dealt with in one country, there has to be a harmonised global response.

Gordon Brown said the current crisis was different from that of 2008:

“That was an economic problem that had economic causes and had an economic solution.

This is first and foremost a medical emergency and there has to be joint action to deal with that. But the more you intervene to deal with the medical emergency, the more you put economies at risk.”

During the financial crisis, Gordon Brown persuaded other global leaders of the need to bail out the banks and then hosted a meeting of the G20 in London, which came up with a $1.1 trillion rescue package.

Gordon Brown said his Global Government would have two aims which were the effort to find a vaccine, and to organise production, purchasing and to stop profiteering.

Many countries have announced economic packages, but Gordon Brown said a task force could make sure the aims of central banks were coordinated, take measures to stop the record flight of capital from emerging market economies, and agree on a joint approach to the use of government spending to promote growth.

Gordon Brown said there had been resistance in 2008 to using the G20 as a means for tackling the financial crisis, but that it should be clear to world leaders that there was no chance of a go it alone approach working.

He said: “We need some sort of working executive. If I were doing it again, I would make the G20 a broader organisation because in the current circumstances you need to listen to the countries that are most affected, the countries that are making a difference and countries where there is the potential for a massive number of people to be affected – such as those in Africa.”

He maintains that The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund needed a huge improvement in their budgets to cope with the impact of the crisis on low and middle-class countries.

It seems as if they simply want to be seen as the hero’s but it would be the UK taxpayer that would be paying for this approach, and we will have enough to pay for, rather than attempting to save the rest of the world.

These two are rich millionaires living in the lap of luxury, and they want you to pay for the healthcare of other countries and then that will be handed down to your children and grandchildren.

Note they don’t say anything about the sick and dying here!

These are the globalist that we elected, then we pay their salaries, and it seems they only worry about people in other countries and they want your money to massage their ego and shine their moral compass at your expense – self-interest masquerading as Altruism.

Essex Deaths From Virus Fall To Zero

NHS England statistics reveal no deaths have been reported in Southend Hospital, Basildon Hospital, Broomfield Hospital, Colchester Hospital or the Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow in the last 24 hours.

There were also no deaths in the trust which provides mental health care in Essex.

The latest figures comprise the period leading up to 5 pm yesterday which are issued every day by NHS England.

NHS England said 403 people, who tested positive for coronavirus have died in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative number of established reported deaths in hospitals in England to 4,897 – the patients were aged between 35 and 106 years old.

Bosses say 15 of the 403 patients, aged between 52 and 94 years old, had no known underlying health conditions, and in entirety, 66 people have lost their lives in Southend and Basildon hospitals after catching the virus.

At Basildon Hospital, 49 people with the virus have died, while 17 have lost their lives at Southend Hospital.

Elsewhere in Essex, 46 people have died at Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow, while 15 have died at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

According to NHS England, a total of 43 people who tested positive for coronavirus have lost their lives at the trust which runs Colchester Hospital, and while the number of deaths falling to zero is cause for optimism, it comes as more than 1,000 positive cases of the coronavirus have been established in Essex.

The latest figures reveal there are now 858 cases in the Essex County Council region, a further 118 positive cases in Southend and 120 in Thurrock.

The number of cases is an increase of 102 on the day before bringing the total to 1,096.

But what about those in care homes and deaths from the coronavirus? What about people that are dying at home of COVID 19? Or is it only NHS hospital deaths that are being calculated?

It appears that the UK daily death figures are only including those dying in hospital, so people who die at home or in care homes et cetera aren’t being calculated, so the UK figures are somewhat misleading because other nations are counting all deaths, and are we going to have to wait for the delay in admin before the real figures come out?

Boris Johnson Taken To Intensive Care

Boris Johnson has been transferred to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.

He was moved on the recommendation of his medical team and is getting wonderful care, and Dominic Raab is to deputise where required.

The Queen has been kept notified about Boris Johnson’s well-being by No 10.

Throughout Monday afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the recommendation of his medical team, he’s been transferred to the intensive care unit at the hospital.

Dominic Raab said that there’s been an especially strong team spirit behind the Prime Minister, and he added that he and his colleagues were making sure they realised the plans that Boris Johnson had instructed them to address as soon as possible.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said his thoughts were with the Prime Minister and his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, and that the Prime Minister would come out of this even stronger, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described it as extremely sad news.

There’s been precious little information shared today about the Prime Minister until he was taken into intensive care at about 7 pm.

The Prime Minister is still conscious, but his health has worsened throughout the afternoon, and being in intensive care changes everything because intensive care is where doctors look after the sickest patients and his admission to ICU is the clearest indication of how unwell the Prime Minister is – the only good thing is that Boris Johnson is awake and is not being ventilated at this time.

Not every patient in intensive care is ventilated, but around two-thirds are within 24 hours of admission with COVID 19 because the disease attacks the lungs and can cause pneumonia and problems breathing.

This leaves the body struggling to get enough oxygen into the blood and to the body’s vital organs.

There’s no documented drug treatment for COVID 19, although there are numerous experimental candidates. The cornerstone of the Prime Minister’s care will depend on getting enough oxygen into his body and supporting his other organs while his immune system battles the virus.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was sending Boris Johnson every good wish, while Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster added she was praying for a full and expeditious recovery.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his thoughts were with the Prime Minister and his family and praised NHS staff for their hard work and commitment.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he hoped Boris Johnson overcomes this ordeal swiftly, and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that St Thomas’s Hospital has some of the finest medical staff in the world and that the Prime Minister couldn’t be in safer hands.

We might not all be Tory supporters, but Boris Johnson is in grave peril now. However, Boris Johnson has exceptional drive, and I’m sure he will strive to win through this virus, and it shouldn’t matter which party we’re supporting, we should be wishing our Prime Minister a quick recovery and everyone else touched by this virus.

And in these times we must cross from politics and gather humanity and standing, and regardless of the situation, we shouldn’t wish death or bad on anyone, imagine if he was one of your family members?

Coronavirus is an equal opportunity virus. It doesn’t discriminate against anyone.

Her Majesty Issues Historic Coronavirus Message

Queen Elizabeth II made a sincere and passionate appeal to the country and the Commonwealth as the impact of coronavirus sets in across the globe.

She delivered her speech to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth at 8 pm on Sunday as the coronavirus pandemic proceeds to grip the globe.

Buckingham Palace yielded aspects of the Queen’s address earlier this week and revealed it was pre-recorded on Thursday and it evoked the touching words of Dame Vera Lynn’s legendary World War II song ‘We’ll Meet Again’.

She said: “This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.

“We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.

“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.

“But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.”

The Queen opened her address by saying: “I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.

“A time of disruption in the life of our country.

“A disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulty to many and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.”

The Queen went on to thank the numerous service people allowing Britain to cope throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

She said: “I want to thank everyone on the NHS frontline as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles.

“Those that selflessly carry out their day to day duties outside the home in support of us all.

“I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.

“I also want to thank those of you that are staying at home, thereby helping protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones.”

She added: “I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

“And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.

“That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet, good-humoured resolve and of fellow feeling still characterise this country.”

“The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.

“The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit, and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.”

The Queen also referred to her first speech to the nation during World War II.

She added: “It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their safety.

“Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.”

But to all you people that are now salivating over the Queen, this lady isn’t going to give you any of her many ventilators on hand, even if you did pay for them and she won’t worry if you drop dead, it’s as simple as that!

And that was a lovely brooch she was wearing – not sure who persuaded her to put it on while the rest of the country is struggling while they have their palaces and enormous parks, with the most exquisite food and wines, staff and medicals at their beckoning – who are they fooling?

The Queen has lived a vested lifestyle for numerous years, living in a palace with servants and security, which must be such hard work, and this isn’t like WWII and we don’t have Vera Lynn crooning in the backdrop.

Our Grandparents had bombs dropping on them and they had family members overseas who were being slaughtered and every day they had to prepare themselves for bad news, but despite that, they also had to keep the family fed on next to nothing and they had to put on a smiling face.

The whole world is fighting this virus and nobody knows what to do to defeat it and we’re all in the same boat, and it’s odd how the Queen only pops up when she knows most will be home watching the TV – Christmas Day and lockdown.

It’s one thing to be whisked away to safety where nobody can contaminate you but others have to go into work to look after people who are seriously ill, or to deliver vital services, but then we live in the real world, Your Majesty.

The Queen has all the security she requires, and she doesn’t have to stay up until midnight so that she can get a slot for her food to be delivered to her, and broadcasting this message while holed up in your second home behind high walls sends the country entirely the incorrect message.

And who listens to the Queen anymore? Because what she says means nothing to the average family.

She can self-isolate herself in her 150-acre castles while us insignificant humans have to quarantine in our home, often with no garden.

I now, here that the front line doctors are going to discriminate against over 75s when it comes down to choosing who gets a ventilator – I bet it won’t come to that if the Queen needed one, she would be top of the list.

I must sound like the green-eyed monster because of course, there are numerous people other than the Queen who live vested lives and who have huge gardens or grounds, but they’re still not as privileged as the Queen.

Maybe I should stop frothing at the mouth!

And there doesn’t appear to be any Prince Phillip about, that’s because they’d have to get him out of his crypt for special occasions and sit him up.

The vested Royal Family are there but no one asked for them with their composed speeches written by a professional writer – nothing came from her heart, she simply did what she was told.

And I’m sure for some, her address felt artificial and staged, and many won’t of cared about what she had to say because we need actions and not words, and this is too little too late because there’s no real wisdom or leadership on this planet, only fools second-guessing at best.

Perhaps British Royalty should be abolished because they’re falling apart from within and only concern themselves with self-preservation while the rest of us bear the consequences.

Corona beer is excellent, people drink it all the time, but this virus is not and will ultimately kill millions.

Now the Royals are nothing more than celebrities, overpaid and acting, putting on a show for the masses, and the Royal Family aren’t going to have to worry how they’re going to cope when this is all over.

While the whole country is full of failed businesses and bankrupt, they will go on their merry way, still taking our money, and I wonder if any of them have a clue to the destruction this will create, but it hasn’t prevented them scurrying off to their second homes, has it?

I do hope that some people got a good message out of her address that was canned by a teleprompter, but if it brings you peace, then I’m thrilled for you.

I’m not saying that she shouldn’t have addressed the people, we all have freedom of speech, including the Queen, but it does show how out of touch she is with modern UK.

Seventy per cent of the younger generation wouldn’t even be able to relate to Vera Lynn, they wouldn’t even know who she is, and instead of the Queen giving great speeches, how about she gives some of that money she gets to the NHS, now that would prick everyone’s ears up.

To be fair, listening to the Queen was like listening to my nan waffle on, and seriously, who’s this woman again? What does she do, or have I missed something while I’ve been in isolation?

And I love the way she acts, “We’ll Meet Again”. I’ve never met her in my life, nevermind meeting her again.

A true Queen would have donated money towards equipment, supplies and people who need it and her address was a pitiful rouse.

Of course, it’s not for the Royal Family to supply the NHS, that’s for the government, but in dire times like this, you would have at least thought she would have offered out of the goodness of her heart.

What’s going on isn’t like a war because we’re up against an adversary that we can’t see, can’t be beaten and doesn’t care if it wins or loses.

We can’t fight it, all we can do is hide from it and trust that it eventually goes away, on the upside we’re not being blitzed, and someone should have the acumen and courage to recommend that all NHS staff receive an OBE and a bigger pay packet when this crisis is over, it’s better than footballers and singers getting it.

I couldn’t imagine a footballer or singer performing open-heart surgery or cleaning up patients sick or blood, but then I can’t see a nurse or doctor booting a football round or singing, but these are not essential parts of our life, saving a life is.

By the time I’d watched the Queen’s address, I’d lost the will to live, and I do try to be understanding, but I just can’t see how a speech from the Queen helps morale.

They’re quite different from the likes of us ordinary men, woman and children in the street, and even further from the frontline workers from all walks of life, all doing their best in so many ways and so many diverse roles to keep this country going.

Next, she’ll be crooning ‘Blue Birds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover, that’s until a Royal Hunting party bags the lot.

Her address certainly evoked the wartime feeling in me, now I feel like sleeping outside in an Anderson shelter for the night in 2 feet of water while the Royals sleep in a palace with a light aircraft on standby.

And why didn’t they open up the palace as a temporary hospital? They have enough rooms in it to sink a battleship. It would prove to the country that she’s united with her minions, but how nice and supportive that would be. Perhaps the children of the key workers could have a garden party when all this ends?

Boris Johnson In Hospital With Coronavirus

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Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital after failing to shake off coronavirus symptoms 10 days after testing positive, but Downing Street said that the 55-year-old Prime Minister had gone to the hospital for tests as a precautionary measure.

Boris Johnson continues to have tenacious manifestations of the virus understood to be a high temperature, and No 10 insiders would only say that the Prime Minister had been admitted to an NHS hospital in London, although was not taken by ambulance and the location was not disclosed.

The nearest hospital to Downing Street is St Thomas’s across Westminster.

It’s understood he will be staying overnight, with officials saying he will stay in hospital as long as needed, so Monday’s COVID 19 war cabinet meeting will be chaired by the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for the first time instead of Boris Johnson.

But Downing Street has asserted that Boris Johnson continues to be in charge of the Government and is still in touch with ministerial colleagues and officials, but it’s understood that Dominic Raab will take over as caretaker Prime Minister if Boris Johnson is incapable of being in charge.

Downing Street has insisted that the Prime Minister’s hospital admission was merely for precautionary purposes and not an emergency admission, and Downing Street said it was deemed prudent for doctors to see the Prime Minister in person given he has continuous manifestations.

However, some aides had become increasingly concerned about the Prime Minister’s well-being when he continued to exhibit symptoms seven days after testing positive.

The most common reasons coronavirus patients are admitted to hospital is for signs of breathlessness, but the other reasons for this are when a person fails to rid the symptoms, which could be due to unexplained underlying health conditions.

Having the virus past 10 days is a red flag and the Prime Minister will likely be having X-rays on his chest to determine if he has any respiratory difficulties.

Some patients who have failed to get rid of the symptoms have developed a bacterial infection on top of the virus, which could explain complications.

The Prime Minister’s last on-camera appointment with the public was on Friday when he recorded a Twitter video telling viewers he still had symptoms so was following Public Health England guidance to stay in self-isolation.

His voice sounded croaky and he looked tired.

Breathlessness is a troubling indication of severe illness and can occur at any period of the illness, it can happen on day seven or day 10, but it’s still only likely that the Prime Minister has moderate manifestations of the coronavirus.

The preponderance of people who develop coronavirus will have mild symptoms, that’s 80 per cent or so. The older you are the more likely it is that a person will become seriously unwell with this.

There’s a severe stage, a moderate stage and a critical stage.

Government aides said that the Prime Minister had been coughing and spluttering on video conference calls over the last few days.

You couldn’t make this news up if you tried and it’s insane times that we’re living in and yet the minority still isn’t observing the rules.

We all knew that Boris Johnson had COVID 19 and now he’s been sent for further testing because he’s had a temperature for over 10 days, and we should wish him well. Some might not like him as a Prime Minister but he’ still a human being and shouldn’t have to go through this, like countless other people that have caught the virus or died from it.

And it shouldn’t matter who you are with the virus. Empathy, compassion, unity and taking care of each other should come first in a crisis because arrogance and stubbornness have no place in these troubling times.

The question is, will Boris be told that he has to wait his turn for treatment as the most serious will have to be seen first, so take a seat somewhere along the corridors with everyone else.

Or would he have been hurried straight through, given a bed straight away, that others have been told they will have to wait for some 16 hours ago as none were available?

We should wish him well, despite his politics and we shouldn’t wish that upon anyone, otherwise, that just makes us as wicked as Boris himself.

And there are many people out there that have been showing signs of the coronavirus and still had symptoms 13 days after and have just been given antibiotics for a post COVID chest infection.

Are these people going to their GP? No. Did they go to the hospital? No. They were just told to stay at home for 14 days or longer and to self-isolate.

I hope that Boris Johnson does get better and then emerges as a better human being, that would be nice.

I don’t wish the man any harm because he is a human being but it doesn’t seem fair that he gets all the tests that he needs, yet our front line workers get the finger, and maybe now he will realise how valuable the NHS and its workers are, and how important it is to fund the NHS.

Coronavirus does not discriminate!

Queen To Talk To The Country

The Queen is to address the country this evening to deliver a message about the coronavirus outbreak and expectations have been building on what the head of state will make her public statement about, in light of the bizarre events that have seen United Kingdom go into lockdown to battle the COVID 19 pandemic.

Her Majesty The Queen has recorded a personal broadcast to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth concerning the coronavirus outbreak and the televised speech will be televised at 8 pm tonight, 5th April 2020.

The speech was recorded at Windsor Castle, and in the message, the Queen is expected to praise the efforts of health workers and all those who’ve been helping in the battle against COVID 19 and to extend reassurance to the country throughout this unsettling time.

The Prince of Wales offered a message of support to the nation earlier this week when he recorded a video after coming out of quarantine following a positive test for COVID 19.

He said that as a country we were confronted with an extremely challenging situation, which we are only too aware endangers the livelihoods, businesses and the well-being of millions of our fellow citizens.

He further said that none of us can say when this will all end, and until it does, we should all strive to live with purpose, with faith in ourselves and each other, and to look forward to better times to come.

The Queen has been staying at her Berkshire residence of Windsor Castle after travelling to the royal premises on March 19, earlier than normal for the Easter period, as a precaution.

Buckingham Palace announced in March that in consultation with the Medical Household and Government, several public events with vast numbers of people expected to have been attended by the Queen and other members of the royal family in the coming months will be withdrawn or suspended.

The palace refused to discuss the health of the monarch, who’s staying at Windsor with the Duke of Edinburgh, but in its last update said the Queen remained in good health and was following all relevant advice.

The monarch and her family have been conducting some of their royal engagements by phone or video link, with Charles opening the new NHS Nightingale Hospital in East London remotely from his Scottish home.

I’m certain that the Queen’s address, composed for her by her staff and read from a card, held by another staffer, will be heartfelt, saying that we must stand together, then in the next breath she’s jumping into the back of a Range Rover heading out of London – that’s not solidarity.

And I know that people say the Royal family do a lot for us but isn’t giving a speech from one of her many palaces a little bit tasteless?

This monarch of ours is priceless – a woman living in a castle, telling council tenants and homeless people that we’re all in this together, clearly, our Queen is experimenting with irony.

The Royals don’t give a fizzle about us peasants, and it’s about time people understood this, with them sitting pretty while poor and working-class people are dying, and the Queen is overlooking that lockdown is way far too more comfortable for the wealthy than the poor people.

For the wealthy, it’s an opportunity to enjoy their immovable properties, whilst for the poor, it’s a real race for survival, and how are we all in this together when the Queen has bolted to Scotland to hide – we don’t see the Queen standing in a queue to buy essentials.

And I can’t help feeling the Royals experience of this virus is hugely different from that of ordinary folk. Isolated in a house with land, gym, swimming pool, horses, an abundance of food, no worry of a mortgage, rent, gas, electric, water, council tax, credit card bill, car loan, insurance, the list goes on, and then fretting that you might not have a job at the end of it.

And I’m sure they don’t have to wait their turn in a 111 queue or despair that their loved ones over 70 years old won’t be treated.

I’m sorry your Majesty but I believe this disaster highlights the huge distinction between us and yourself, and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want to trade places – we’re all in this together!

And I hope she’s putting her hand in her pocket and giving taxpayers money back directly to those on the front line right now? But I bet her imaginary purse won’t let her.

All in this together – does that mean we’re all invited to hole up in Windsor Castle, to be waited on hand and foot – no battling supermarket queues?

A message from the Queen? What good is that going to do? And I don’t want to hear a word that comes out of her mouth, other than that she’s donating her money to better her country – then she’ll be a great person and worthy of some respect.

And like what the Queen has to say is going to make us all feel so much better – the Queen is a saviour in her Ivory tower and she has no concept what’s going on in her guarded pampered life.

And the Queen’s speech will do as much good as people clapping on their doorsteps. What’s she going to do, wave a magic wand and the virus will disappear and everyone will be okay?

If the Queen wants to help, then she should divert her immense resources to frontline staff and victims of the virus – a pre-recorded message is a feeble attempt to support the public she professes to care about.

The Majority Of Brits Agree That The Decision To Lock Down By Boris Johnson Came Too Late

A preponderance of people in the United Kingdom believes Boris Johnson imposed the coronavirus lockdown too late, while more than a third don’t believe current constraints go far enough.

And there has been a measure of public outrage at the government’s strategy to the crisis with ministers now under pressure to go further to combat the spread of the dangerous virus, and that there should have been a decision to implement a nationwide lockdown earlier than it was.

But despite the time issue, countless people want the government to now go further in the belief that the current measures have fallen short, and that all commercial flights into and out of the United Kingdom should be suspended for the duration of the lockdown.

However, the government is resolute that such a move is not needed because there’s no indication that closing borders or executing a travel embargo would have any impact on the spread of infection, given that it’s already widespread in the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, people are responsive to the concept of sanctifying NHS staff, backing plans to award frontline workers a special coronavirus medal, and numerous people think the government should acknowledge in some way the efforts of the NHS workers, with many backing a permanent pay rise.

And it’s suggested that the country is braced for a long term disruption and that numerous people believe the lockdown will still be in place at the end of May, with some believing it will be much longer.

Downing Street said lockdown will be examined after three weeks but the direction of travel suggests measures could be kept in place for longer than that, and Boris Johnson has repeatedly stated the situation in the United Kingdom will get worse before it gets better and a preponderance of people agreed with that appraisal.

The nation has said that they expect the situation to worsen before it improves, believing that a majority of the UK population will unavoidably contract coronavirus, with one-fifth of the country believing that they’ve already had the virus and many believing that they have the coronavirus now and that the coronavirus will have a negative impact on their finances.

The country is now apparently divided with the police approach to implementing lockdown, amid criticism of some forces being heavy-handed.

Some people believe that police measures have been about right, but some are saying that there’s not been enough, but some people have stated that the police had been extreme in their use of the powers to break up gatherings and to prevent people making non-essential journeys.

The current crisis further seems to have crippled countless people’s opinion of the Chinese government, with some people saying they believe the Chinese government is dishonestly reporting the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in China where the coronavirus started.

And when Germany and South Korea took it seriously, we here in the United Kingdom did not, thinking it wouldn’t get here, but our government should have stopped flights earlier in hindsight, but better late than never, I guess, and all people in the United Kingdom should be wearing masks if they have no option but to go out.

It was only about a month ago that everyone believed the coronavirus was nowhere nigh as bad as a man cold, but it appears that China has brought the world to its knees by its disgusting cultural practices that caused this to pass from bats to people in Wuhan food markets.

But maybe China played a blinder to take over the world by using this simple biological weapon. They let it kill their own in Wuhan and didn’t seem that worried about it.

They shut down and kept it out of Shanghai and Beijing, and it looks like they’ll be buying up the whole of the world in a few months for a pretty reasonable price, and the biggest blunder Boris Johnson made was to think that moneybags living within the M25 would act responsively and like grown-ups and not party like idiots.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be criticising Boris Johnson because we know where this virus came from and we know who played this down initially and had they not, governments would all have responded differently if China had been honest as far back as November.

Hopefully, all western leaders will learn from their mistakes, but the greatest lesson of all will be to never trust China again, or is this simply the current theme going around, seeking to divert from our own government’s failures?

However, moving swiftly along, where do you think this virus came from? – it certainly didn’t come from Westminster, and how many pandemics has China had in the last 20 years – swine flu, bird flu, SARS and now COVID 19.

Who kept the virus concealed from the world from November and didn’t inform us until January, by which time they’d let millions leave China and contaminate the world.

Who tried to silence the doctor who tried to warn the world, and who has since died? And where is the other lady doctor whistleblower who also spoke out and has since disappeared?

It isn’t the UK government that’s contaminated the world while keeping it hidden – what we should be doing is politicising this disaster that started in China and its abject behaviour.

And now because of this situation, we’re looking at promoting ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders for an entire generation of older people who receive care, and this is terrifying, and where will it end?

And I wonder when this is all over what liberties our government will give us back, and we all have to ask ourselves, would we want Boris Johnson’s job at this moment in time? Of course not, but we’re happy to reprimand the choices he’s having to make.

As far as I can see, the government is frantically seeking to manage a novel and unforeseen global pandemic that the entire world was unprepared for.

Our government have tried to deal with a population in the United Kingdom that’s calling for stringent lockdown measures, but a large population in the United Kingdom are actively resisting it.

You only need to listen to people’s comments to see the various extremes in people’s minds, and the lockdown was only enforced because numerous people were making the predicament more acute by actively disregarding all government guidance from the start, and yet people still won’t adhere to it.

But how far can we go with this lockdown? Wear a mask, don’t breathe, hide at home, watch porn till you’re brain dead, request a pass to take a walk, and don’t ask questions. How on earth did we get here?

More than a quarter of Britons have confessed to breaching the government’s coronavirus lockdown rules, as numerous people young and old continue to needlessly wander the countries streets and beauty spots.

The thing is, we’re not in the middle of this virus, we’re at the beginning. The question is, how long will most healthy people put up with this lockdown because it appears this virus is here to stay, and we will have to live with it until someone develops a weapon to regulate it, and its tendency to mutate, and now there are some people out there yelling ‘police state’ over this lockdown.

The thing that bothers me the most and I find the most disheartening, is this continuous government bashing because this isn’t necessary for such a serious situation.

We are following a world curve and no government could prepare efficiently for something that’s never happened before, and unless we want to fully surrender our civil liberties to this, like some draconian countries, mapping their citizen’s movements via apps, we need to stay home and follow the guidelines and stop bashing those whose job it is to support and maintain the situation.

In South Korea visitors are made to buy a sim card and place it in their mobile phone, then they have to self isolate for 2 weeks in a nominated location.

There have been instances where the mobile signal is lost and the police have called on a person having a shower and another was in the kitchen when the police called – everyone wears a face mask – I guess it beats clapping on your doorstep.

The other question you have to ask yourselves, precisely how long is lockdown sustainable for? It’s not a long term solution.

I guess Boris Johnson and the government have responded reasonably well within the limited understanding of this killer virus, but no one knows, even now, and in situations like this, we all rely on the most reliable information at the time.

We can’t all criticise Boris Johnson, but I do agree that NHS staff should have more protective gear and testing appears to be the way forward, and Boris Johnson needs to make as much money available to do this.

It doesn’t matter where they come from, they could come from Timbuktu, as long as we get them, and although the preponderance of people are acting sensibly with this lockdown, there are going to be people out there that are going to scorn the rules because they don’t have the fortitude to wait, and they’ll start believing it won’t happen to them, but of course, this will cause another wave of this fatal virus.

People need to take responsibility too. How many of us started social distancing before we were told to? But what exactly are the government supposed to do? You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink and some people will never take the advice seriously and they’ll scorn all the rules at the cost of others.

Nobody on this planet knows what’s going to happen with this virus, not a soul. Every government has its team of specialists who are leading policy, but this is a new situation and we’re all flying by the seat of our pants.

The government told us to all stay at home, so you can’t blame the government for all the fools in parks and at the seaside treating it like it’s a holiday, spreading the virus – they were all told, what part of staying at home didn’t they understand?

What matters now, is that we need to be reducing the mortality rate, and all NHS workers need to be supported by Boris Johnson. He also needs to get tests done on staff as well at patients so that some of them can be transferred onto a general ward if they test negative and free up ventilation for those who require it.

However, passengers arriving into the United Kingdom are still not having their temperatures taken as a guideline as to whether they’re contaminated with the virus or not.

People are still coming into Heathrow from the USA, Italy and the Far East and Boris Johnson’s only protection is a bottle of hand sanitiser, and if our government aren’t willing to check passengers as they come off the plane, then he should suspend all incoming flights to protect our country.

Allowing flights is ludicrous anyway because you can’t regulate infection if they’re letting people fly in who could have the virus, but we can all be wise after the event, and we’ve never been in this position before – no one could have visualised the pace of this virus as it went worldwide.

This virus has accelerated fast, and no one saw how this would pan out. Five weeks ago, people were partying with their friends, there were no issues, no alarm – now we can’t get anywhere near our friends and family.

And Boris Johnson’s advisers must have forgotten the old saying: ‘Prevention is better than cure’, so this country is now suffering because the so-called advisers didn’t use their common sense, assuming of course, if they possess any at all.

But the government has failed its doctors and nurses badly with inadequate protective clothing, therefore many caught the virus and what was an already overburdened medical staff was decimated by around 30 per cent.

Society needs to understand the situation, and how deadly this virus is. There’s no vaccine, which means there’s no cure or even a drug to hinder its spread, so at the moment the only way it can be contained is through isolation – not isolation of the virus, but the isolation of the population.

The spread needs to be quieted down enough to make the level of the virus and sickness that it causes to be manageable and like the flu, this isn’t ever going to go away, so we simply have to protect our most vulnerable whilst some others manage to build up a resistance against it.

But if there’s one thing that we’ve discovered from this outbreak, it’s just how many incompetents run around at large, and who are in vital parts of our everyday lives.

It’s easy to criticise Boris Johnson or any minister for that matter because we all have to put the onus on someone else, but we’re in uncharted waters, fighting an adversary that we can’t see and who’s aimless on who it strikes.

It’s a bit like the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII with submarines sinking allied ships and seeking to find the Achilles Heel which is the needle in the haystack which must be found.

No doubt people during WWII asked the same questions and wondered what the government were up to, and errors, mistakes and miscalculations were prevalent then and it’s no different today, although today we’re in the information age which gives us more knowledge, and now Boris Johnson has been weighed, measured and been found wanting!

Welsh Surgery Apologises

An NHS health board has apologised after a GP surgery in Wales recommended patients with grave illnesses complete ‘do not resuscitate’ forms in case their health declined after getting coronavirus.

Llynfi surgery, in Maesteg near Port Talbot, wrote to a tiny number of their patients requesting them to complete a (DNACPR) do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation form to ensure emergency assistance would not be called if they got COVID 19 and their well-being declined.

It read: “This is a very difficult letter for the practice to write to you”, noting that people with illnesses such as incurable cancer, motor neurone disease and pulmonary fibrosis were at much greater risk from the virus.

It continued that they would therefore like their patients to complete a DNACPR form for which they could share, which would mean that in the case of swift decline because of the COVID 19 infection or disease progression, the emergency services would not be called and resuscitation endeavours to restart the patient’s heart or breathing would not be attempted.

It claimed that completing a DNACPR would have numerous advantages. Firstly, the GP and more importantly friends and family would know not to call 999. Secondly, limited ambulance resources could be targeted to the young and fit who would have a greater chance of survival.

It continued that the risk of spreading the virus to friends and family and emergency responders from CPR was extremely high, but that having a DNACPR form in place would protect family and emergency responders from the added danger.

The letter said that in an ideal situation doctors would have had this discussion in person with vulnerable patients but had written to them instead due to concerns they’re carrying the virus and were asymptomatic, and said that they wouldn’t abandon their patients but that they needed to be honest and pragmatic.

However, this was not a health board requirement, even though the letter was sent out from the surgery.

The surgery has now been made aware that the letter caused upset to some of the patients who received it, even though the surgery said this was not their intention and apologised for any distress caused and staff at the surgery are now talking to those patients who got the letter and to respond to any concerns.

The letter went viral on social media and one person said a nurse practitioner had recently visited her father, who is getting palliative care, was also requested he sign a DNACPR form.

The number of deaths from the virus in the United Kingdom grew by 393 on Tuesday, the biggest increase since the pandemic started, taking an overall toll to 1,789.

The NHS currently has 8,175 ventilators and has said it requires 30,000 more to deal with an expected peak of COVID 19 patients, while the health service is reportedly endeavouring to expand its intensive care capacity sevenfold amid concerns the full impact of the pandemic could be devastating.

There’s a shortage of personal protective equipment across the NHS despite repeated attempts to provide ambulance crews, GP surgeries and hospitals with the masks, visors, gloves and aprons that help prevent coronavirus transmission and at least three healthcare workers have already died from the virus.

Doctors in the United Kingdom must consult with patients or their families if they choose that resuscitation would not be effective or that complications would result in more pain.

Families can seek a second opinion but the decision is ultimately a medical decision to be made by a doctor.

But this is a national disgrace and a scandal and what it boils down to is that Boris Johnson and the Tory party don’t give a stuff about these people and they never will, and perhaps Matt Hancock would like to demonstrate why he and Boris Johnson aren’t trying to protect these people.

This is sickening, and this government needs to stop and take their head from up their backside. What is going on with our nation that lets old people die without dedication when many of these old people gave this country our freedom.

And quite frankly, what this surgery was doing was implying is that these people should sacrifice themselves to save resources to save people a lot of bother.

So, does anyone else still not believe a culling of the herd wasn’t intended. In Spain, they’re now actually putting anyone over 65 to sleep so that the young get ventilators, yet you’d get arrested for euthanasia.

And what about the Hippocratic Oath, “First do no harm”, well that notion was knackered then, and isn’t against human rights, other people deciding if we live or die, and is the public going to stand for this, or do we accept this like the jews had to in the concentration camps?

All we can call this is a God complex.

The letter read: ” We will not abandon you but we need to be frank and realistic about what the next few months hold for all of us”. They won’t abandon you, but they will forsake you. So, they’re saying they won’t abandon you, but if you get the virus we’re lying and you’re on your own.

If these people wanted a DNACRP they’d already have one in place and the letter should never have gone out. It was ruthless and insensitive and I’m sure that it caused the people who received it a lot of despair and anxiety, and they probably went out of their minds with worry that they might get the virus when they were already vulnerable.

The discussion and it should have only been a discussion if and when someone got infected and it should be addressed with compassion by suitably trained medical doctors.

I thought that disability discrimination was illegal – this is not Nazi Germany and we’re supposed to be a civilised society but thanks to this government’s relentless cuts, they’d sooner push you off a cliff, and the doctors who consented to this should be struck off.

And how long before these decisions are being made all around the country by every practice, and these decisions must be coming from a more powerful source because GPs are not making these decisions on their own.

And I’m sorry, but culling the weak and crushing the vulnerable isn’t a sign of a country that cares for everyone.

This letter said that the intention was not to cause upset, well I think they were way off the mark with that one because no one’s life is more important than another.

The letter that was sent to these vulnerable people only made them feel more vulnerable and insignificant. The fact of the matter is, no matter how old and what condition you’re in, no one wants to die and their loved ones certainly don’t want them to die, and it was an insensitive letter and the elderly that are self-isolating are probably frightened enough without having to deal with some stupid letter popping through their letterbox.

Clearly, this surgery knew when sending out these letters it would cause great distress and it wasn’t the most sympathetic way of dealing with this situation, and it certainly wasn’t the best way to notify patients, particularly when families are all under severe stress.

The feeling we are getting now is that at all costs, not just the elderly or sick are being advised or told not to go to A&E anymore and to either speak to a doctor or dial 111, but then you are relying on someone coming out to get you to the hospital if your symptoms are life-threatening, but will they?

That’s the troubling thing now, and we don’t want to be left guessing or someone saying, sorry we’re very busy and that you’re not classified as a priority call or urgent, and it’s something that none of us wants to speculate about.

Every life matters whatever your age or health conditions, and this letter simply shows how low our country has declined.

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